https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-46072339
Mario Segale, the man after whom video game hero Super Mario was named, has died aged 84.
Mr Segale was a successful Italian-American property developer from the US state of Washington.
In the 1980s, he leased a warehouse to Nintendo of America who decided to name the star of their new video game after him.
Mr Segale joked to the Seattle Times in 1993 that he was "still waiting for my royalty cheques".
Super Mario was originally called Jumpman until Nintendo decided it wanted to give the character a proper name.
Mr Segale said it was Minoru Arakawa, who had been tasked with setting up Nintendo of America, who told him the video game hero carried his name.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBgcKeFy_Vo
This post is like a Good Value knockoff of sonic drowning
Proof that Sonic is better than Mario!
Sega does what Nintendon't
Never knew Mario was actually named after a specific person.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32Hp1LW08Yc
For some odd reason, I thought that "Mario's Namesake" meant Charles Martinet.
Rest in Peace, Mario wouldn't be as iconic without his name
There's a rather prolific home-service plumber in my neighborhood who's an Italian named Mario. The legend will live on.
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/mabTRLSI17I/hqdefault.jpg
It's all Link's fault.
On a serious note it's amazing how one random person managed to in part inspire the most notable gaming icon ever.
